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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-03-19

was bout that time was a pretty
tough sorter place: 'twan't more'n
a camp, no-how, but thar was some
church folks out thar, an they had
a school house, and whenever Prov
idence sent them travelin' parson
they was mighty glad of it, and
made big to do over i'm.
told Todd the plan was all
right, but the question was, who
was goin' to do the preachin'. When
we talked it over, you see, it turn
ed out that Todd was a mighty
good reader, but he couldn't talk
with a cent, and / was a talker
from away back, but never knowed
how to read. Finally we agreed
that l was to do the preachin' and
Todd was to set behine me in the
pulpit and sorter whisper to me
what was in the book-so's l could
git my tex started, you know, and
then / was all right.
We got to Jewel on a Thursday
an we lived roun' mongst the
bretherin' on the fat O. the Ian;
they jest couldn't do too much for
us. Soon got to be known we was
goin' to preach an when Sunday
come the old school house was jest
rammed and jammed, an folks all
roun' on the outside lookin' in the
winders,
"We'se good fur Dustin big col
lection" WHISPERED Todd, as we sat
down benin the teachers desk,
which was the pulpit and presently
Todd got up and lined out hymn,
an the congregashum chimed in
and made it howl. An then one O.
the brethrin prayed an got up an
started my sermin.
| opened the book an he'll it up
before me whilst l looked at the
in an unmoved and
lignifed kind Ter way, an then 1
ct it down with my thumb between
he leaves, SOS Todd could see
What was writ.
can the Lawd sed unto Noses"
whispered Todd.
| raised the book up again,
oughed in an impressive mannah,
nd sed:
can the Lawd sed unto Moses"
Then | sorter paused to give
eight to my remarks, and / let the [
ook down again, an Todd whisp-
IS:
Hang it all, take your thumb !
+ O. there"
Then in deep solemn voice l
peated my exhortation, and l
4ys to the multitude: e
"An' the Lawd said unto Moses,
ing it all, take your thumb off O.
ere"-didn't know but it was all -
it down, yerknow, jest like Todd ::
id; and then Todd says without =
eing the book: m
"Now, you've played the devil" ~
d sab, give that to the congre- g
ton, solemn as a Jedge. t"
Well, sch, never got no further %
my text. Everybody LATED and =
Tered, an two or three fellers :
lg out, 'Kill the bloomin' frauds ~
shoot 'em Hang 'em ! and / see u
id scootin' through a window, q
| | kinder knowed something =
wrong somewhat, and l foller- 3
suit in short order. Yes, sab, 8
they chased us about fifteen
es cross the prary, an l never 2
e such tall runnin' since l was =
IN. Yes sab, thanky, don't :.
r fl do. Looks like mighty s.dt
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-03-19

- 3AAo ~ pow, viz SOYCiuilltul
chemist says:
81 regard all alumni powders as
very unwholesome. Phosphate and
Tartaric Acid powders iberate
their gass to freely in process of
baking, or under varying climatic
changes suffer deterioration.
DIR. H. A. Mott, the former gov
eminent chemist, after careful
and elaborate examination of the
various baking powders of com
merce, reported to the government
in favor of the Royal brand.
Prof. McMurtrie, late chief chem
ist for the U. S. Government, at
Washington, says: "The chemical
tests to which l have submitted the
Royal Baking Powder, prove it per-
fectly healthful, and free from every |
deleterious substance.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-03-19
CALDWELL

Caldwell the heart of the great Boise Valley is 65
Mountain Nome 25 miles northwest Of Salt Lake and
45O miles southeast Portland Oregon the trading for
Snake Reynolds Jordan Pay
Valleys for the mines about Flint and Silver
CITY, geographical location is destined become
all the between Salt Lake and
Portland,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-03-19
TEE CLIMATE

delightful Amecaf not in the world Being much
elevated than it's and southern neighbours it is within
easyrange of the Pacific 1t is also just
out of of and the northern blasts.
The altitude is 1900 feet.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-03-19
BAKING POWDERS.
INTERESTING TESTS MADE BY THE
GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS.

DR.. Edward G. Love, the Analy
;tical Chemist for the government
has made some interesting expert
.ments as to the comparative value
of baking powders. DR.. Loves
tests were made to determine what
brands are the most economical to
use, and as their capacity lies in
their levening power, tests were di-
rected solely to ascertain the avail
able gas of each powder. DR..
Loves report gives the following:
Name Of the Strength
Baking Powders. Cubic inches Gas
per each ounce Of Powder.
I" Royal" absolutely pure 1874
Patapsco" (alum powder) 124.2*
+" Rumford's" (phosphate)
fresh 1921
!" Rumford's (phosphate)
old) '.'............... 3Z.I*
!" Hanford's None Such fresh 1915
Hanford's None Such, old 1896
Redhead'so 117.O
Z" Charm" (alum powder) /. 1869
Amazon" Alum powder) 111.9
Cleveland's Contains lime) 11O.S
/" Sea Foam" 1919
!" Car" 1868
DR.. Prices" Contains lime) 1926
!" Snow Flake" (Grofrs St Il
Paul 1O1.S8
+" Lewis" Condensed. ...... 9S.2
I" CONGRESS-" yeast 97.5
:" c. E. Andrews & Co.'S" icon
tains alum) 1917 |
"Hecker's" 92.5
+" GilletsV .~.. 84.2
" Bulk" 8O.5
Tn hia rar,orf tho /Xox,o~,.,oo,,+
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01
LIQUOR AND OLD AGE.
Intoxicating Drinks the Most Powerful
Obstacles to Long Life.

Intoxicating Drinks the Most Powerful
Obstacles to Long Life.
There is much in modern life that
tends to shorten existence and to
diminish the probability that a man or
woman will reach ninety, to say moth
ing of a hundred. We lead more ex-
citing and more wearying lives. 1t is
in vain that a person has a splendid
constitution to begin with, wears fan
mel, or the equivalent of flannel, next
to his skin, dwells in warm, dry
house, and eats and drinks every
thing that is good and wholesome, if
at the same time he habitually over
taxes his sire myth, looks upon his
muscles as mere machinery to be
driven at high pressure, and ruthlessly
calls upon his nerves to squander their
reserve power when every other
source of energy is exhausted. Men
or women who intend to be
centenarians in these days must COM
bine something of the old mode of life
with something of the new mode of
living. They must, while availing
themselves of all the scientific discov-
cries and sanitary appliances of the
age, initiate their grandsires in the
st eady and tranquil habits that pre-
vailed befor the invention of locomo-
tives and the telegraph. They must
have their eight hours of sleep regu-
larly, they must have intervals of re-
pose and vac ancy in the daytime; they
must spend a goodly portion of their
waking hours in the open air. Nor
will that suffice; there will have to be
regularity in the hours of their meals,
and discipline in the ordering of the
dishes of which the meals are COM
posed. We cannot believe that any
body will ever live to one hundred
who eats heavy dinner every night
of his life at eight o'clock. Cham
payne and brandies, Bordeaux or Bur-
gundy should be forsworn by persons
who deliberately set before them the
attaining of their hundredth birthday.
Neither, with such an end in view,
would the active life of q politician, a
lawyer or Il doctor be a sane enter
prise. In order to reach that distant
goal there must be q training, if not
severe, at least regular and unfinch-
ing. Most of all there must prevail
in the existence of such person Il tram
quill serenity. an unruffied calm.
Neither generous passions nor enthu-
siastic ideals must be allowed admit
lance. The pulse must never be
driven up beyond certain point.
either by work, by anxiety, by fear or
by hope. At the same time, mere
stagnation will, in all probability
never enable a person to live to one
hundred. There is such thing as
rusting out as well as wearing out. If
candle does not burn brightly
enough, IL does not consume the wax
with rapidity, and goes out for want
of adequate combustion. 1t is so, no
doubt, with the human body and the
human spirit. Standard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01

remained there in that awful fesr
minutes, hours, months. years, cen
turies-l do not know how long.
lost all idea of time and place. al
was silent. From without the noise Of
the storm and the whistling of the wind
came to me softened and sad, Ike
means. l could not picture to myself
the assassin who was coming-who was
there perhaps. In that state of horror
| could see only little Lizzie. fair, rosy
and frank, with her doll and her great
hat; l could see her sleeping in her
fathers arms; now and then she lightly
raised her eyelids and disclosed her
eyes, which seemed to me to be bold,
implacable. cruel, murderous.
The door opened, but as softly as the
scratching of mouse. | bit my lips
till the blood came, to keep from crying
out. Now man stepped in with gliding
tread, with infinite precautions to avoid
touching the furniture. 1t seemed 70
me as if | could see the cruel, clutching
fingers gliding over my clothes, search
ing my pockets. Then the steps cane
nearer, seemed to Craze me. felt tht
the man was bending over the bed. tht
he struck one fierce blow. Then | kneT
nothing more.
When recovered consciousness, tie
room had become silent again. BIT
fright held me nailed to the spot. 1T
length l decided to escape, with wk9t
caution you may imagine. On hpto'
gained the door, which had fot been
closed. Not sound, nota breath.
Feeling my way, passed ipSo the nall
| waited to see a head thrlst suddenly
from out the shadows, hlfe CLEAN IN
the dark. But no-thebrute, glutted
with crime, slept without remorSe. l
descended the stairs, drw the bolt OF the
door, and, half faintin, with the blood
frozen into my weir, l fell into the
gutter of the desertel street.
Doctor Bertram lad listened to my
recital with the deepest interest.
And there fclnd you, Mr. Furniss,
and in what site! Could you recog-
nize the house?F
Yes" replied; "but to what endP'
"Well, let ne cure you, and then we
shall go together to the house of these
assassins."
Eight days later the doctor and I
stood in Lover Abbey street. | recog-
nized the terrible house. All the blinds
were draw; in front of the door a
placard wa placed, bearing the legend;
ITO Let"
1 inquired of the former residents
from a neghbor.
They have been gone a month OIL
more" size replied. 'It's great pity,
for they were very nice people. y
Translated for the ArgonGt, from the
French of OctaUe Mir5eGu.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01
AN INTELLIGENT JUROR.
Uncle Toms Ideas Concerning Law an
Kindred subjects.

Kindred subjects.
care you citizen of Wyandotte
Connty?" asked the Hon. Bailey Wag-
gener of an old colored man who hob
bled into the jury box with the aid of
long hickory cane.
81 is, sab" replied the aged darkey.
"How long have you been SUCH"
81 donno, sab. J"
"Have you formed or expressed an
opinion about the case?"
well, | donno. / have resulted the
matter considerable, and when my mind
was fully rectitied l went down to de
track. [ met the sheriff. and he told
me to reappear, and left.
"Have YOU formed an opinion that
the train was wrecked by accident or
design?'
"Yes, sab; think it was wrecked by
'zign."
"Are you opposed to capital punish
mentp"
mo, sab"
"Do you know what capital punish
ment is?"
mo, sah."
Have you any conscientious scru-
ples?"
mo, have not"
'Do you think that man should be
hanged for murder?'
"Yes, sab.
"If the evidence in the case should
show the defendant to be guilty Of muir
der would you hesitate to find verdict
of guilty because the penalty might be
DEATH"
Eyes sab, l would"
'In the trial of the case would you
be controlled by the evidence or by
what you have heard?"
Il would to the best of my ability
Would the evidence control you in
arriving at verdict"
mot if could help IT,"
'Do you know what an oath isP'
II does not. y
'In the trial of the case would you
feel yourself bound by your oathP"
II has not Elected on that subject,
sab. "-KaaSaS city Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01
LITTLE BY LITTLE.

Not in a roaring river pouring
Falls the summer rain,
But with sprinkle, patter, tinllle,
On roof and hill, and plain.
Drop by drop-how the green leaves growl
Drop by drop-how the fair buds bow.
The SHOWS that cover the bare earth over
To wrap her winter sleep,
Fly hither, thither, feather by feather,
Until they lie knee-deep.
Flake by flake guards the bulb from harm.
Flake by fake is the wheat kept warm.
The orchard gladdens the eye and reddens
With apples all its trees; 4
But not in a minute was drawn within it
The sweets of sun and breeze;
The black seed first, then the tender shoot,
The trunk, the blossom, and now the fruit.
Never were seven-league-boots given
Except in the fairy tale,
Nor can wishing hurry the speed, or carry
One over peak and dale.
Step by step, in shine and shade.
Is the long road Travelled, the journey made
Second by second time is reckoned,
As winged are they as bees,
Too swift for counting, yet soon amounting
To years and centuries.
Every tick of the clock says one!
And all it can do for the world is done.
Small however the true endeavor,
Great may its outcome be.
A burden lightened; a lone life frightened;
slave to sin set free;
The sick and the sorrowing visited,
The naked clothed and the hungry fed
Mrs. clara D0ty Bates. IN S. S. Tines
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01
TEMPERANCE READING.
HIS LAST DRINK.

A merry crowd, careless throng,
Where foaming glasses. Jest and song
Filled up the hours.
There gathered rough and bearded men,
And fair-faced boys, within that den
OF Satans powers.
One came as often as the rest,
To share the flowing wine and jest,
With reckless air.
AS if pursued by fiends within
He sought the place where drink and din
Soon banished care.
One night the usual glass was poured,
Amid the revel songs encored
BY those who heard.
The poison almost finds his lips
When from his hands the goblet slips,
Without a word. -
muttered oath-a logged air
A sudden lula general stare
Then loud and clear
He spoke: Fill me another glass;
My nerves are shaky-let it pass
Here's to all here"
He lifted up the glass again,
But set it down and faced the men
Who sat around.
"Boys"-and his voice was hoarse with dread
81 can not drink that glass; he said
A sudden sound
Like smothered laughter-then his face,
AL stern ana white, subdued the place,
And silence fell.
81 can not drink it, for their lies
Within its depths pair of eyes,
Like Heaven in hell.
ST can not drink it, for there swims
face above the foam that brims-
The face of one
Whose heart would ache to see me here;
Whose heart would break, 1 am so dear;
Boys, 1 am done
''Done with the poison; here's my hand;
With God s help mean to stand
BY all say;
And stand by her whose dear face lies
Between me and the reveries
leave to-day
-E0lHG LyadOa, in Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01

tween the ages of and 10; IA between
IA and 81; 81 between 20 and 26; SO
between % and 81; 10 between so and
Al; between 40 and 81"
do most women begin drinking
in early life?''
The average age when they began
was 49, years. More than one-half
had formed habits of intemperance be-
fore they were q years of age, aid
more than one-third at the giddy age
of from 10 to 20 inclusive. One hun
dred and thirty-two began to drink So
cially and with female friends.
The police sergeant was right.
Beer does it."-M Y Mail and Er-.
press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01
Extract from Daily Paper.

Agent Henry Z. Stocking, of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, last evening in one room
on the top floor of an old three-story
frame building at g. King street, found
Mrs. Julia Shaughnessy, aged thirty
two, sitting on the bed intoxicated. Two
children, Tessie. aged three, and johann
ma, aged eight, were almost naked.
The room had only a broken bed, three
seatless chairs and a three-legged table.
While Mr.. Stocking was examining the
room the third child, Nellie, aged six,
entered, having flask of whisky
clutched in both of her hands. She
was barely able to walk from weak
ness. Not Il crust of bread or any
thing edible was found in the room.
The chlldren's eyes were red from cry
ing for bread, while the besotted moth
er had sent for ten cents worth of
whisky. The children were in a most
filthy condition. For the past month
Mary, aged thirteen, has been earning
four dollars a week in a preserve fac
tory. Little of her wages went for
food, the mother spending it on
whisky. John Shaughnessy, the hus-
band and father, died some five weeks
ago. Agent Stocking had the children
washed and clothed and then sent to an
institution. Justice Duffy committed
the mother for three months.-M Y.
Sun
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01
ON THEIR OWN HOOK.
A Study of the Self-Supporting Women oil
New York City.

New York City.
In New York there are every year
more and more women living Ion their
own hook" How do they live, how do
they like it themselves, these women
| on their own hook, who, of course, are
generally living out of family homes,
and are often isolated among strangers
in this big city? Like most compre-
hensive questions that can not be an
swered in il word. All over the town,
sandwiched in among other boarding
and lodging house denizens, is the self
supporting or the stud ent woman; but
it is not under such circumstances that
the best study of her can be made;
flocking by herself in this Dundreary-
ish fashion, she is neither so happy nor
so characteristic us when the flocks in
more normal fashion with others of a
feather. There are houses that she
takes possession of through spontane-
Gus volition, us it were. and there are
houses that are specially dedicated to
her service. There are many classes
of her, and she is something like the
same person of song and story.
who when she was good was very
good indeed, and when she was bad she
was horrid; when our woman on her
own hook is jolly and enjoyable, she is
most delightful creature, and when
she is doleful she is the most doleful
creature in a pessmistic world. Among
the poorly-paid workers, such as seams
tresses and saleswomen, life as have
seen it is very gray indeed, and when
they get old it is hopelessly drab.
This is by no means altogether the
result of poverty. I've known little
artists of one kind and another poorer,
though not much, for the best of rea-
sons, but when common types of hui
mainly are taken ont of that school of
the affections, the family, and put at
grinding labor that furnishes little or
no food for the mental activity, the
result is deadening and dulling that
is not cheerful TO contemplate. Just
what should be done about it is easier
to ask than to answer; though excep-
tons may be numerous these are not
the class of minds that can be easily
amused by the elevated forms of enter
tainment that philanthropists usually
| favor.
The most interesting classes of indie
pendent women are the students and
those who are working in the field
where they have formerly been
| students.
There are now about two thousand
out-of-town art students in New York
in the winter, and the most of these
are women. They, too, are generally
poor, but they are apt to have souls
above luxury. To care pre-eminently
about some pursuit and to be able to
follow it, that is evidently the great
necessity to happy existence. have
not noticed that talent so inevitably
goes with this decided prediction as
most people think, but if one loves an
occupation enough it is not necessary
to be successful in it to be happy-the
pursuit is itself happiness. Nowhere
is this oftener the case than among the
painters, except among those that
ara learning to be painters. y.
GrDphic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01


A PROMINENT Christian worker re-
Gently stated that he had in his office
n book containing seven hundred
pledges signed by Incorporate men,
and of the seven hundred he could
count on the fingers lof one hand the
number who had been faithful to their
pledge and remained total abstainers.
What lesson this sholld be to parents
and teachers as to tin Importance of
having the foundation of character
carefully laid and Largely fixed in early
life. - CongregdtiondltSt
- Cd
THE great Doodle REVELATIONS in this
city and New York ara no exception
to the rule that the sabon is at the
bottom of almost all corruption of
character, or ut least u Wy station on
the prison line. We haY yet to hear
of one in the ring nd a drinker.
Honesty is not to be preserved in
alcohol - Union Signal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-22
THE PEABODY LETTER.

The publication few days since of the
fac-simile of President Peabody's letter is
still the subject of much comment.
1t used to be considered question Of pro-
prietv to say kind word of the result of a
treatment other than that prescribed by a
regular practitioner and the tlale was when
a man using an advert sed remedy did so
more or less surreptitinusly. However, this
has happily given away to broader and
more liberal view of things, tyWtied III Mr.
Peabody's frank expression that he knows
of no valid reason why commentator
should not be equally as hearty in one in
stance a. in the other.
Certainly this would appear fair in the face
Of the facts. He was assured that the in
jury would confine him to the house for
three weeks or more, yet in three days Use
of the Oil he was out and about bis duties
as if nothing had happened. Surely a rem
edv that Will 50 practically demonstrate its
efficacy and that has stood foremost, a has
St Jacobs oil. upward Of ten wears As unap
proachable for the eradication Of pain, is
Justly entitled to rank as Il standard.
That many physicians prescribe / is as true
as that many physicians use it, and it IS only
those of the very Oh school who, true to
ancient doctrivc- ran ser r.' I'd in il, be-
cause il IS made known ta the world. Not
icu- since one II the~e orupj e q c'iia.Ient al
u.ts 10 a friend requesting three be;t!es be
>r.t for his personal use iEnle tately, as
vi. haut i his h@tsiS we're "simlly no hands
:. ALL bat continued he. for Heavens
sake don't saw said Sc" This j. literally
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-22

Hon. Orville ID. Baker, of this city, Attor-
hey General, departed for Dexter yesterday
afternoon and will be connected with the
Barron-Stain case.
Mr. John w. Sheehan, of the Journ al
ofhce, departs on a vacation trip this morn
ing. He will visit friends in Biddeford,
portsmouth, Great Falls, and other places.
Hon. S. w. Matthews and Gen. II. Nj.
epfague returned from Caribou yesterday
1en. Sprague has been visiting friends in
Aroostook, and expresses himself as delighted
with the whole country.
Alden Greene of Houlton arrived in this
city yesterday, en- route for the Soldiers
home. He was soldier In the late war,
and while engaged in the battle of Bull
Kun was wounded in the limbs.
MIR. Emmons Blaine, who has been visit
ing in this city left yesterday for Chicago
PREVIOUS to his departure he said he only re-
GREETED that he was unable to stay longer and
that it seemed to him that he had never seen
business apparently SO booming in Augusta
as at the present time.
Senator Hale, under date of Oct. 8, has
written from Germany to gentleman in
ellsworth, that as soon as he can get his
family settled in Southern Germany for the
winter, he shall leave for home. He expects
80 sail from Paris about the 23d inst. and
reach New York ABOUT Nov. LIST.